The Most Important Thing Is

I Drive Old Cars, All My Patagonia Clothes Are Years And Years Old, I Hardly Have Anything New. I Try To Lead A Very Simple Life. I Am Not A Consumer Of Anything. And I Much Prefer Sleeping On Somebody's Floor Than In A Motel Room.

The Most Important Thing Is To Get The Fish In Quickly And Leave It In The Water. Forget The Hero Pose.

...there's No Such Thing As Sustainability. There Are Just Levels Of It. It's A Process, Not A Real Goal. All You Can Do Is Work Toward It. There's No Such Thing As Any Sustainable Economy. The Only Thing I Know That's Even Close To Sustainable Economic Activity Would Be Organic Farming On A Very Small Scale Or Hunting And Gathering On A Very Small Scale. And Manufacturing, You End Up With Way More Waste Than You End Up With Finished Product. It's Totally Unsustainable. It's Just The Way It Is.

We Took Special Pride In The Fact That Climbing Rocks And Icefalls Had No Economic Value In Society...we Were Like A Wild Species Living In The Edges Of An Ecosystem - Adaptable, Resilient And Tough.

Yeah, Leading An Examined Life, I Always Say, Is A Pain In The Ass. It Adds An Element Of Complexity To Business That Most Businessmen Don't Want To Hear About. They Just Want To Call A Fabric Manufacturer, And Say, "hey, Give Us 10,000 Yards Of Shirting."